New German cinema : a history by Thomas Elsaesser(
Book
)32
editions published
between
1988
and
1994
in
3
languages
and held by
1,001 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The aim of this study of contemporary German cinema is to set the significant films and film-makers in their proper context.
The author explains the nature of the German film industry, the cultural inheritance of its film-makers, and the social and
political climate within which they work

Metropolis by Thomas Elsaesser(
Book
)32
editions published
between
2000
and
2012
in
3
languages
and held by
794 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
This volume explores the cultural phenomenon of Metropolis, its different versions, its changing meanings, and its role as
a storehouse of database of the 20th century

Early cinema : space, frame, narrative(
Book
)29
editions published
between
1990
and
2013
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
699 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
In the twenty years preceding the First World War, cinema rapidly developed from a fairground curiosity into a major industry
and social institution, a source of information and entertainment for millions of people. Only recently have film scholars
and historians begun to study these early years of cinema in their own right and not simply as first steps towards the classical
narrative cinema we now associate with Hollywood. The essays in this collection trace the fascinating history of how the cinema
developed its forms of storytelling and representation and how it evolved into a complex industry with Hollywood rapidly acquiring
a dominant role. These issues can be seen to arise from new readings of the so-called pioneers--Méliès, Lumière, Porter,
and Griffith--while also suggesting new perspectives on major European filmmakers of the 1910s and 20s. Editor Thomas Elsaesser
complements the contributions from leading British, American, and European scholars with introductory essays of his own that
provide a comprehensive overview of the field. The volume is the most authoritative survey to date of a key area of contemporary
film research, invaluable to historians as well as to students of cinema [Publisher description]

Weimar cinema and after : Germany's historical imaginary by Thomas Elsaesser(
Book
)27
editions published
between
1999
and
2013
in
English and German
and held by
684 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
German cinema of the 1920s is still regarded as one of the 'golden ages' of world cinema. Films such as The Cabinet of Dr.
Caligari, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Nosferatu, Metropolis, Pandora's Box and The Blue Angel have long been canonised as classics,
but they are also among the key films defining Germany as a nation uneasy with itself. The work of directors like Fritz Lang,
F.W. Murnau and G.W. Pabst - having apparently announced the horrors of fascism, while testifying to the traumas of a defeated
nation - still casts a long shadow over cinema in Germany, leaving film history and political history curiously intertwined.
Weimar cinema and after: Germany's historical imaginary offers a fresh perspective on this most 'national' of national cinemas,
re-evaluating such labels as 'Expressionist film' and 'The new Sobriety' and even putting 'fascinating fascism' and film noir
in a different, international context. Thomas Elsaesser questions the conventional readings which link these genres and movements
solely to the legacy of German romanticism and nationalism, and offers new approaches to analysing the function of national
cinema in an advanced 'culture industry'. Elsaesser reads the major films as well as popular entertainment cinema against
the contradictory background of avant-garde modernity and consumerist modernisation from the 1920s to the late 1930s. He argues
that Weimar cinema's significance lay less in its ability either to promote socialism or predict fascism than in its contribution
to the creation of a community sharing a 'historical imaginary' rather than a 'national identity'. In this respect, German
cinema in the Weimar period anticipated some of the problems facing contemporary nations in reconstituting their identities
by means of media images, memory and invented traditions. -- from back cover

The BFI companion to German cinema by British Film Institute(
Book
)12
editions published
between
1999
and
2000
in
English
and held by
600 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide

Film theory : an introduction through the senses by Thomas Elsaesser(
Book
)24
editions published
between
2009
and
2015
in
4
languages
and held by
496 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
What is the relationship between cinema and spectator? That is the central question for film theory, and renowned film scholars
Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener use this question to guide students through all of the major film theories' from the classical
period to today' in this insightful, engaging book. Every kind of cinema (and film theory) imagines an ideal spectator, and
then imagines a certain relationship between the mind and body of that spectator and the screen. Using seven distinctive configurations
of spectator and screen

Fassbinder's Germany : history, identity, subject by Thomas Elsaesser(
Book
)19
editions published
between
1996
and
1997
in
3
languages
and held by
450 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Rainer Werner Fassbinder is one of the most prominent and important authors of post-war European cinema. Thomas Elsaesser
is the first to write a thoroughly analytical study of his work. He stresses the importance of a closer understanding of Fassbinder's
career through a re-reading of his films as textual entities. Approaching the work from different thematic and analytical
perspectives, Elsaesser offers both an overview and a number of detailed readings of crucial films, while also providing a
European context for Fassbinder's own coming to terms with fascism

The last great American picture show : new Hollywood cinema in the 1970s by Thomas Elsaesser(
Book
)19
editions published
between
2003
and
2004
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
441 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The American cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s has remained a Golden Age. As the old studio system gave way to a new
generation of American auteurs, directors such as Peter Bogdanovich, Bob Rafelson, Martin Scorsese and Robert Altman helped
create an independent cinema. The protests against the Vietnam War, the Civiel Rights movement and feminism saw the emergence
of an entirely different politcal culture

A second life : German cinema's first decades by Thomas Elsaesser(
Book
)13
editions published
in
1996
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
314 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Essays on a neglected period, focusing on the face and fate of popular cinema

Cinema futures : Cain, Abel or cable? : the screen arts in the digital age(
Book
)10
editions published
in
1998
in
English
and held by
257 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Examining the complex dynamics of convergence and divergence among the audiovisual media, the authors are realistic in their
estimate of the future of the cinema's aesthetic identity, and robustly optimistic that the different social needs audiences
bring to the public and domestic media will ensure the distinctiveness, as well as the necessary openness of cultural meaning
and creative input

Harun Farocki : working on the sight-lines by Harun Farocki(
Book
)17
editions published
in
2004
in
English
and held by
208 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
For more than thirty years Farocki has been a filmmaker, documentarist, filmessayist and installation artist. What preoccupies
him above all is not so much an image of life, but the life of images, as they surround us in the newspapers, the cinema,
history books, user manuals, posters, CCTV footage and advertising. His vast oeuvre of some sixty films includes three feature
films (Zwischen den Kriegen/Between the Wars, Etwas wird sichtbar: Vietnam/In Your Eyes: Vietnam, Wie Man sieht/As You See),
essay films (e.g. Images of the WorldInscription of War), critical mediapieces, experimental work, children's features for
television, historical film essays (e.g. on Peter Lorre), learningfilms' in the tradition of Brecht (e.g. Workers Leaving
the Factory) and installation pieces (e.g. Still Life). In this monograph, Elsaesser approaches Farocki's work from different
critical perspectives, as well as reflecting on his extraordinary biography. The volume is complemented by interviews, a selection
of writings by Farocki and an annotated filmography. £22,50 $39,95

Händler der vier Jahreszeiten = The merchant of four seasons by Rainer Werner Fassbinder(
Visual
)2
editions published
in
2015
in
German
and held by
198 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
This despairing yet mordantly funny film charts the decline of a self-destructive former policeman and war veteran struggling
to make ends meet for his family by working as a fruit vendor

German cinema-- terror and trauma : cultural memory since 1945 by Thomas Elsaesser(
Book
)11
editions published
between
2013
and
2014
in
English
and held by
182 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
In German Cinema - Terror and Trauma Since 1945, Thomas Elsaesser reevaluates the meaning of the Holocaust for postwar German
films and culture, while offering a reconsideration of trauma theory today. Elsaesser argues that Germany's attempts at ""mastering
the past"" can be seen as both a failure and an achievement, making it appropriate to speak of an ongoing 'guilt management'
that includes not only Germany, but Europe as a whole. In a series of case studies, which consider the work of Konrad Wolf,
Alexander Kluge, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Herbert Achterbusch and Harun Farocki, as well as

The persistence of Hollywood by Thomas Elsaesser(
Book
)1
edition published
in
2012
in
English
and held by
178 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
One of the most influential figures in the study of classical Hollywood cinema examines various paradigms for reading Hollywood
and its cinema. Thomas Elsaesser considers the applicability of classical film theory and alternatives to it

Persona by Ingmar Bergman(
Visual
)2
editions published
in
2014
in
Swedish
and held by
174 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
An actress has inexplicably gone mute; a young nurse cares for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there,
the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema's most influential
ideas

Writing for the medium : television in transition by Thomas Elsaesser(
Book
)14
editions published
in
1994
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
166 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
This collection of essays, by well known writers on the subject of writing for television, is divided into three sections,
with the first one devoted to the debates on quality television. The second one focuses on literature and television. The
final section examines 'Science on television', with series editors from Britain and Germany giving first-hand accounts of
the scope for serious science reporting on television

Filmtheorie zur Einführung by Thomas Elsaesser(
Book
)12
editions published
between
2006
and
2013
in
German
and held by
161 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide